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M02-07 – SHANE C. DUNN COLLECTION

Franz Ziereis was the Commandant of Mathauson and overseer of many German Concentration Camps.  He worked closely with Hitler on many occasions, and was known as one of the most brutal Commandants of the Reich.  He is personally held accountable for 40,000 prisoners that perished in the first four months of 1945.  Below is a listing of camps under his orders.

 

 A-G

Amstetton Ebensee Eisenerz
Floridsdorf Grossraming Gunzkirchon
Gusen I Gusen II Gusen III

 

H-L

Heinkelwerke-Schwochat Klagenfurt-Junkerschule Linz I
Linz II Linz III Loebolpass
Loiblpass-Nord

 

M-P

Mauthauson Melk Mittelbach
Passau I Passau II Passau III
Pegau

 

S-W

Saurer-Werke Schloss Endt St. Lambrecht
St. Valentin Steyr-Munichholz Ternberg
Wels Wieher Neudorf Wiener Neustadt

 

 

Box 1

File 1 – Information on Franz Ziereis (Information obtained via Internet search engines)

File 2 – Original Copies World War II Interrogation record of Franz Ziereis (Papers are brittle and have been placed in confinement sleeves, no photocopies are allowed, but photocopies of originals are in File 2)

Duplicate copies of this transcribed confession have been placed with the Holocaust Museum records of Franz Ziereis.  Although there are several different Interrogation records of Franz Ziereis; this is the only record which holds a confession of his actions.

End of Box 1

End of Collection

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